Engineering Team Lead
Alpen Labs develops Alpen, an EVM-compatible Bitcoin validity rollup and testnet for building Bitcoin-native financial applications. The platform enables developers to deploy smart contracts and build applications involving BTC lending, payments, vaults, and other programmable financial use cases.
Maintainer signals as of 8/23/2026
Funding history
About Alpen Labs
Alpen Labs operates and develops Alpen, a work-in-progress EVM-compatible validity rollup on Bitcoin. Alpen uses Bitcoin for consensus and data availability and provides a testnet, block and checkpoint explorers, developer documentation, RPC access, smart-contract deployment guidance, and node-operation materials. Its platform targets developers and teams building Bitcoin-native financial applications, with support for EVM tooling, account abstraction, BTC bridging, and programmable BTC transactions.
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Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
Hands-on engineering leadership role combining people management, technical direction, architecture, coding, mentoring, hiring, and delivery ownership for protocol infrastructure.
Requirements
- 6+ years of software engineering experience including 2+ years in technical management
- Experience with Rust, EVM-compatible chains, and L2 technologies
- Strong systems programming or full stack development experience
- Experience with open source projects or public developer tools
- Experience leading projects from architecture through deployment
- Experience with crypto, distributed systems, or infrastructure focused on reliability and performance
- Understanding of developer experience and clear documentation
- Interest in small, mission-driven teams building foundational infrastructure
Responsibilities
- Lead and grow a team working on core infrastructure and protocol components
- Set engineering standards for code quality, testing, and documentation
- Collaborate with product, protocol, and infrastructure teams on roadmap priorities
- Participate in architecture design and technical planning
- Coach engineers and lead performance reviews
- Hire and onboard engineers
- Keep the team focused, unblocked, and shipping high-impact work
Benefits
- Professional development and learning resources to support learning and growth
- Resources and tools necessary for productivity
